Garment attachment



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GARMENT ATTACHMENT Fiied Oct. 17, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Jim z giz iz is A TTORNEY Patented Oct. 22, 1935 UNITED STATES GARMENT ATTACHMENT Emanuel Morells, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to Michaels, Stern & 00., Rochester, N. Y., a partnership Application October 17, 1933 Serial No. 693,963

2 Claims.

My present invention relates to clothing and more particularly to outer garments, such as mens coats and vests of the kind constituting manufactured or ready made apparel as distinguished from custom made clcthing,such as is fabricated by tailors who cut and fit garments according to individual measurements. The type of ready made garment first alluded to runs in approximate sizes and in particular cases the articles have to be altered by a fitting tailor or busheler, as he is called. It is frequently his problem to so alter these articles of clothing that unusual depressions in the backs of individuals lying between the shoulder blades shall be filled up so that a coat or similar outer garment that would otherwise wrinkle in the region of this part of the anatomy will lie fiat or full. It is an object of the present invention to provide a ready made pad that may be used by the busheler in such instances and readily inserted in the garment to counteract the deficiencies mentioned. A further object of the invention is to provide a pad of this character that will be inexpensive to manufacture and apply, that will be comfortable to the wearer and not easily detected. To these and other ends, the invention resides in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a rear view of a mans vest constructed in accordance with and illustrating the use of a pad embodying my invention, the back center seam being ripped and rolled away to reveal the P Fig. 2 is arear view of a coat or outer garment as worn over a vest so fitted and showing in dotted lines the relative position of the pad;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged front view of the inner structure of the pad, one of the cover pieces of the envelope or container being removed;

Fig. 4 is a. vertical section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same parts.

Referring more particularly to the drawings and first to the detail View, the pad has the general triangular shape shown simulating, in general, the wider hollow between the shoulder blades at the top tapering downwardly to the narrower hollow in the middle of the back. It embodies a light envelope I, preferably of sateen or the light material commonly used for the backs of vests and coat linings, but only the rear element or back of this envelope, 2, is shown in the details, the front or facing being removed from a line of stitching 3, indicated approximately by dotted lines. Applied to the front of this backing element in pyramidal form are a plurality of padding sheets 4 to 5 superposed upon each other, the upper and forwardly or outer plies or laminations being progressively smaller, but all being preferably of the general triangular shape of the backing, as clearly appears from the drawings. The padding sheets are made of soft material that will adapt itself to body contours without being harsh. I prefer to use a thin cotton batting and the component parts are secured together by a central longitudinal line of stitching 6 so that the edges remain fiuifed up. This stitching preferably does not extend to the outer element 2, as appears in Fig. 5.

The bottom or rear padding sheet 4 is, however, preferably sewed to the backing of the envelope along one of the lines of stitching 3.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, the pad is applied to the vest or similar garment, as shown in Fig. 1, between the lining l and back 8 by opening the back seam 9 at In. Its broader upper edge is inserted beneath the collar portion ll of the front l2, that is, between it and the facing strip that forms the neck and is there stitched in place at l3, or it may be secured in the stitching of the seam at l4 where the back 8 is rejoined with the collar or neck piece.

The result is that the vest fits without leaving a hollow between the shoulder blades and when the coat or outer garment I5 is worn over it the pad keeps both the collar and the back thereof fiat and free from wrinkles or, at least, without other than the desired slightly outward curve.

The above is my preferred method of applying the pad, but it is obvious to those skilled in the art that it could be similarly inserted between the lining and the collar of an outer garment itself.

I claim as my invention: 7

1. In a garment having a collar portion, a back and a lining and for the purposes described, the combination therewith of a downwardly tapering pad secured between the back and the lining with its broader upper edge at the base of the collar, said pad comprising a triangular envelope having a filling of soft material.

2. As an individual article of manufacture, a garment pad for use in filling the backs of garments between the shoulders and adapted to be secured at the collar of the garment, the same comprising a downwardly tapering triangular envelopecontaining a plurality of superposedtriangular padding sheets of soft material and of progressively diminishing area, said sheets being sewn together along a median line so that their edges will have a tendency to fluff up and conform gently between the regions of the shoulder 

